Category: Military

By Dorland Peter Nanney James S.

By Ian Fletcher

Following the conflict of Bussaco on 27 September 1810 Wellington's seriously outnumbered troops started to withdraw in the direction of Lisbon. via the night of nine October the British and Portuguese started to withdraw at the back of a line of shielding works that were outfitted to the north of Lisbon. those weren't the rudimentary box works that the French expected, yet a major community of forts, batteries and redoubts whose development were began the former November - the strains of Torres Vedras. This 30-mile-wide line utilised the area's traditional defences, damming rivers, scarping hillsides, blockading roads and setting up forts upon just about all of the hills. This name describes its layout, production and effectiveness within the face of French assaults.

By J.M. Brereton

Op; 1985; J. M. Brereton; HB with dirt jacket (dj) less than mylar protector; 288 pages; tables; index; line drawings of regimental badges; layout of enteries- Regimental identify, formation facts, conflict honors, uniform aspect, Regimental marches; Regimental magazine, Regimental headquarters, Regimental museum, Regimental nickname, if any.

By Gerard Henrotin

Богато иллюстрированное издание, посвященное советским боевым пистолетам ТТ и Макаров. История создания, модификации, клейма, схемы, фото, рисунки.

By Anthony J. Cumming

This persuasive research assaults the foremost myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation elements within the defence of england. with out denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming demanding situations the effectiveness of the Royal Air strength in 1940 and provides the Royal army a lot larger prominence than others have. He vigorously asserts the facility of British warships to frustrate German plans for Operation Sea Lion and to repel Luftwaffe assaults. the writer argues that the RAF took the lion s proportion of the honor merely simply because its vibrant photo may perhaps simply be used to control American opinion. Cumming contends that the seventieth anniversary of the conflict of england may still have a good time the contributions of the numerous instead of concentrating on the pilot elite, an statement absolute to impress dialogue.

By Philip Haythornthwaite, Bryan Fosten

The Prussian military of King Frederick II, 'the Great', turned so popular due to its campaigns, mostly through the Seven Years' battle (1756-1763), that it used to be considered as a version for plenty of of the opposite armies of Europe. during this first of 2 volumes exploring Frederick the Great's excellent military, Philip Haythornwaite examines the association, strategies and uniforms of his cavalry troops, in a textual content subsidized through a number of illustrations together with 8 complete web page colour plates via Bryan Fosten.

By Lon Nordeen, Jim Laurier

This publication is the 3rd of 3 volumes on US Marine Corps Harrier IIs in wrestle, and it's the first quantity in print to hide the full tale of the AV-8B's provider employment in the course of peacekeeping operations after which in Afghanistan.

In the Seventies the USMC acquired the AV-8A Harrier from the united kingdom to check V/STOL (vertical and/or brief take-off and touchdown) suggestions for shut air help. A profitable investment conflict used to be therefore fought within the Nineteen Eighties to safe army, political, and monetary help to extend this idea to advance and box the second one iteration AV-8B Harrier II from the overdue Eighties onward. The AV-8B used to be, and nonetheless is, the one tactical plane that can installation with Marine forces on amphibious attack ships and supply air conceal and shut air aid cut loose huge deck plane vendors. Having visible motion in-theater in the course of Operation barren region typhoon in 1991, the Harrier II used to be seriously fascinated with peacekeeping operations in Balkans within the Nineteen Nineties, in addition to in Africa from 1992 to 2002. From past due 2001, the jet took half within the 'War on Terror" in the course of the early section of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. devices built with the airplane firstly flew from amphibious attack ships off the Pakistani coast, ahead of turning into land-based in-theater from early 2002 following the career of Afghanistan by means of Coalition troops. Harrier II squadrons have maintained a presence in-theatre helping anti-Taliban and al-Qaeda operations ever since.

By Alain Picollet

The Ouest France sequence. every one e-book during this sequence includes a stable heritage background of the kind in query and (if appropriate) a few fascinating insurance of its provider existence with the French militia. every one e-book contains a number of b+w pictures, a few color pictures and in addition color art.